Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Bars in San Francisco, CA
Craft cocktail bars and lounges in San Francisco that take their non-alcoholic program seriously. San Francisco's non-alcoholic scene is one of the country's deepest, anchored by two dedicated alcohol-free spots: Ocean Beach Cafe (billed as the city's first AF bar and bottle shop) in the Outer Richmond, and The New Bar, a fully zero-proof bottle shop and tasting bar in Cow Hollow. The real strength, though, is how seriously SF's world-class bars and restaurants take spirit-free: Michelin tasting menus build dedicated non-alcoholic pairings (Kiln, Anomaly, Nari), craft cocktail bars print real zero-proof lists (Bar Iris, Last Rites, ABV, Pacific Cocktail Haven, Trick Dog, True Laurel), Fort Point's Valencia beer hall pours its own NA beer, and spots like Copra, Palm House, Wildseed, and Fiorella round out a city where not drinking never means settling for a soda.
12 cocktail-style venues listed
Craft cocktail bars with NA programs
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Pacific Cocktail Haven, known as PCH, is a cocktail bar at 550 Sutter Street in Union Square, opened in 2016 by bartender Kevin Diedrich and rebuilt at its current address in March 2022 after a fire destroyed the original room. The menu is broken out by base spirit and carries a standing non-alcoholic section, and bartenders will build a spirit-free version of nearly anything else on the list. Named zero-proof pours include Raisin da Roof (Lyre's non-alcoholic gin and dry aperitif, raisin, orange, apple cider vinegar), Karl the POG (Seedlip Spice, house passionfruit-orange-guava, orgeat, citrus, ginger beer) and Cactus Makes Perfect (nopales water, jicama, sakura). PCH has won Best American Cocktail Bar at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards and reached No. 16 on North America's 50 Best Bars in 2025.
Signature NA drinks- Raisin da Roof
- Karl the POG
- Cactus Makes Perfect
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Trick Dog is a cocktail bar at 3010 20th Street in the Mission, opened in 2013 by Josh Harris and known for elaborately designed, fully themed drink menus that the team reinvents roughly every six months. Harris is sober, and the bar deliberately integrates zero-proof drinks into the same menu sections, with the same creative names, as the full-proof list rather than isolating them as a separate category — so a non-drinker gets the identical ordering experience. Past alcohol-free builds include Puppy Pose, a creamy green milk punch with wheatgrass, yogurt and non-alcoholic spirits, and the Wydah, built on Ritual Tequila Alternative and Wilfred's aperitif. Trick Dog was named Best U.S. Cocktail Bar at the 2025 Spirited Awards and has twice won World's Best Cocktail Menu.
Signature NA drinks- Puppy Pose
- Wydah
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
The Interval is the cafe, bar and salon of The Long Now Foundation at Fort Mason Center, a space built around long-term thinking, with a floor-to-ceiling library, an eight-foot mechanical orrery and artwork by Brian Eno. Its bar program was created by Jennifer Colliau, founder of Small Hand Foods, and later shaped by Todd Myles Carnam; both have since moved on, and a "Time Capsule" section of the current menu preserves their signature drinks. The no- and low-ABV list is treated as core rather than supplementary, built on house-made seasonal shrubs, non-alcoholic bitters and dealcoholized aperitifs. Current spirit-free pours include Asimov's Crater, the Bitter Orange Old Fashioned and The Maiden, alongside non-alcoholic beer and sparkling cider.
Signature NA drinks- Asimov's Crater
- Bitter Orange Old Fashioned
- The Maiden
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
True Laurel is a cocktail bar and restaurant at 753 Alabama Street in the Mission, opened in 2017 by the team behind the Michelin-starred Lazy Bear — chef David Barzelay and bar director Nicolas Torres. Its drinks are built from house-made syrups, shrubs and ferments made with California produce, and the same pantry drives a rotating non-alcoholic list that always carries several zero-proof options, including the Bay Bay Bubbler (California bay laurel, dealcoholized tequila, quinine) and Spice & Everything Nice. The bar has a heated parklet on Alabama Street that stays usable in Mission fog. True Laurel ranked No. 17 on North America's 50 Best Bars in 2025, rising to No. 14 in 2026, and won the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award in 2024.
Signature NA drinks- Bay Bay Bubbler
- Spice & Everything Nice
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Bar Iris is a Japanese-influenced craft cocktail bar at 2310 Polk Street in Russian Hill / Polk Gulch, opened in early 2022 as the sibling to chef David Yoshimura's Michelin-starred restaurant Nisei next door. The program leans on Japanese spirits and long, seasonal ingredient lists, and its non-alcoholic offering is unusually deep: the bar keeps a standalone alcohol-free menu that currently runs nine N/A cocktails named for Japanese places, from the Kyoto — a non-alcoholic martini of Amass and Dhōs N/A spirits with Aplos Arise, narazuke brine and tsukemono — to the Yakushima (Okinawa purple yam, Wilderton Earthen, kalamansi, li hin mui), alongside a bottle list of dealcoholized sake, sparkling wine and riesling. Several cocktails on the main list are also marked as available non-alcoholic, and The San Francisco Standard has reported that more than half its cocktails can be made without alcohol.
Signature NA drinks- Kyoto (N/A martini: Amass N/A, Dhōs N/A vodka, Aplos Arise, narazuke brine, tsukemono)
- Yakushima (Okinawa purple yam, Wilderton Earthen N/A, kalamansi, li hin mui)
- Aichi (Seward N/A gin, red shiso, N/A riesling, Muri Yamile, honey, Q soda)
- Tokyo (Amass N/A gin, N/A vermouth, Pathfinder N/A amaro, N/A sake, Aplos N/A bitters)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Last Rites is a "Polynesian Noir" tiki bar that opened in San Francisco's Duboce Triangle in 2018 from Justin Lew and Ian Scalzo (the team also behind nearby Horsefeather). The room is built as a crashed-plane-in-the-jungle: a real airplane fuselage forms the bar, surrounded by banyan roots, stone booths, fire-breathing skull idols, fog, and storm effects. The cocktail program leans grown-up and rum-deep (150+ rums), skipping the blue-curaçao tiki clichés. Notably for a serious cocktail bar, it prints five named zero-proof drinks on the main menu at about $14 each — built on house-made "LR N/A Cask Spirit" and "N/A Cane Spirit" plus Pathfinder no-ABV spirit — so the alcohol-free cocktails get the same theatrical treatment as the full-proof ones. Named NA pours include the Golden Idol, Glass Ruby, Mocking Bird, Wrong Island, and El Peligosto. Wednesday bingo nights are a local draw.
Signature NA drinks- Golden Idol
- Glass Ruby
- Mocking Bird
- Wrong Island
- El Peligosto
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
ABV is a Mission District cocktail bar that opened in summer 2014, founded by Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ryan Fitzgerald, and Todd Smith (a founding Bourbon & Branch bartender). It was named Imbibe Magazine's 2015 Bar of the Year and ranked #39 in the inaugural North America's 50 Best Bars (2022), the only San Francisco bar on that list. The menu is organized by base spirit, with dedicated "LOW ABV" and "0% ABV" sections that make the no/low offering a standing, structured part of the program rather than an afterthought. The non-alcoholic cocktails ($14) center on a house "n/a aperitif" and bright, fresh builds — the N/A Negroni (n/a aperitif, charred grapefruit tonic), Flightless Bird, Green Dream (tarragon, lemon, ginger, tonic), and Jumpstart (carrot, ginger, turmeric, lemon, soda) — alongside Lagunitas Hop Water and IPNA. ABV makes drinks to order and runs a late kitchen until midnight.
Signature NA drinks- N/A Negroni
- Flightless Bird
- Green Dream
- Jumpstart
- Passionfruit Fix
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Starlite is the 21st-floor bar of the Beacon Grand hotel on Powell Street in Union Square, a room that has served cocktails since 1928 and reopened after the hotel's restoration with drinks by Scott Baird and a bites menu by chef Johnny Spero. Its non-alcoholic programme is a printed menu section titled The Free Spirited, holding four zero-proof cocktails at $16 named for the seasons: Spring, built on Navarro verjus with lemon, honey, chamomile and club soda; Summer, with passion fruit, lime, vanilla, coconut water, butterfly pea flower and saline; Autumn, with jasmine tea, pomegranate, ginger five-spice syrup, white miso and lemon; and Winter, with carrot juice, toasted almond milk, cinnamon, star anise and Meyer lemon. NON 1 zero-proof wine and Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn complete the section.
Signature NA drinks- Spring (Navarro verjus, lemon, honey, chamomile, club soda)
- Summer (passion fruit, lime, vanilla, coconut water, butterfly pea flower, saline)
- Autumn (jasmine tea, pomegranate, ginger five-spice syrup, sweet white miso, lemon)
- Winter (carrot juice, toasted almond milk, cinnamon, star anise, Meyer lemon)
- NON 1 zero-proof (raspberry, chamomile, Murray River salt, cane sugar, verjus)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Third Rail is a cocktail bar on 20th Street in Dogpatch, known for craft drinks served alongside house-made jerky. Its approach to alcohol-free drinking is unusually practical: rather than confining zero-proof options to a short list, the bar marks individual cocktails on the main menu as available as non-alcoholic, so the same builds are offered either way. Four of the shaken drinks carry that note, including the Yuzu Cute with elderflower, yuzu, pineapple, lemon and mint, the grapefruit-and-elderflower Pawloma, the house Third Rail with lemon, honey and orange bitters, and the smoky Evil Twin. The menu also lists one purpose-built zero-proof cocktail, Dragonfly, made with Ritual Zero Proof tequila, butterfly pea flower, agave, lime and clove.
Signature NA drinks- Dragonfly (Ritual Zero Proof tequila, butterfly pea flower, agave, lime, clove)
- Yuzu Cute, available non-alcoholic (elderflower, yuzu, pineapple, lemon, mint)
- Pawloma, available non-alcoholic (grapefruit, lime, agave, elderflower, sparkling grapefruit soda)
- Third Rail, available non-alcoholic (lemon, honey, orange bitters)
- NA Program Strength: 4 of 5?
Anina is a tropical, plant-filled bar on Hayes Street in Hayes Valley, trading to 1am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and known for a rum-heavy, botanical cocktail list and shareable punchbowls. Its alcohol-free drinks sit under a menu heading simply marked zero proof, and they are priced from $7 to $13 against $15 to $17 for the full-proof cocktails. The section lists Six of Cups, built on Floreale L'Aperitivo with lemon, honey and cucumber tonic; a Pathfinder Spritz made with the fermented and distilled hemp spirit; St. Agrestis's Phony Negroni; and a Juice Shop pineapple mint tonic of sparkling spring water, cold-pressed pineapple and pear juice, mint, blue spirulina and eleuthero. Athletic Run Wild, Best Day Kölsch and Leitz Eins Zwei Zero sparkling rosé fill out the list.
Signature NA drinks- Six of Cups (Floreale L'Aperitivo, lemon, honey, cucumber tonic)
- The Pathfinder Spritz (fermented and distilled hemp spirit, cane sugar, lemon, wormwood, angelica root, ginger, sage, saffron, orange peel, douglas-fir)
- St. Agrestis Phony Negroni
- Juice Shop pineapple mint tonic (sparkling spring water, cold-pressed pineapple and pear juice, mint, blue spirulina, eleuthero)
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
Around-the-world-themed cocktail bar in SoMa from the Pacific Cocktail Haven team, with a small zero-proof cocktail section built on Lyre's spirits.
Signature NA drinks- Zero Here
- Sober Dragon
- NA Program Strength: 3 of 5?
Laszlo is the cocktail-bar sibling of Foreign Cinema, the Mission District restaurant chef-partners Gayle Pirie and John Clark have run since 1999. It sits next door at 2526 Mission Street and works as a multi-level DJ and vinyl lounge — mezzanine booths, a large record collection and live local musicians or vinyl DJs most nights — serving craft cocktails alongside oysters and bar bites from the Foreign Cinema kitchen, with never a cover charge. Its printed menu carries a dedicated zero-proof section that rotates. Current pours include the Aplos Mandora Negroni Spritz, a sparkling non-alcoholic negroni; the Manipuri Sumac Soda (heimang sumac concentrate, lemon, soda); Coco Libre! (coconut, lime, pineapple, rhubarb shrub, Monetto non-alcoholic aperitivo); a salted raspberry and chamomile cooler; NON1 dealcoholized sparkling wine; and Fieldwork Blonde non-alcoholic pilsner.
Signature NA drinks- Aplos Mandora Negroni Spritz
- Manipuri Sumac Soda
- Coco Libre!
- Salted Raspberry & Chamomile
Other bars in San Francisco with serious NA programs
These aren't classified as cocktail bars, but their NA programs are extensive enough to be worth a stop.
What separates a good NA cocktail bar from the rest?
A great non-alcoholic cocktail bar isn't defined by whether it stocks Seedlip on the shelf. It's defined by whether the bartenders treat alcohol-free drinks as cocktails — built with the same logic, the same balance, the same care for mouthfeel and presentation as the alcoholic side of the menu.
The signal: a printed NA section on the menu with named drinks, an NA-spirits row on the back bar (Lyre's, Seedlip, Wilderton, Ritual, sometimes Monday Zero Alcohol Gin or Wilderton Lustre), house-made shrubs and bitters available for NA builds, and staff who can talk through what's in a drink without defaulting to "we can do something with juice."
The opposite: a generic "mocktail" line item priced at $8 with no description, or worse, a Shirley Temple by default. We rank cocktail-style venues here by NA Program Strength and lead with the venues that have published named NA drinks on their menu.
Frequently asked about NA cocktail bars in San Francisco
12 cocktail-style bars in San Francisco run non-alcoholic programs we've verified. Top picks include Pacific Cocktail Haven (PCH), Trick Dog, The Interval at Long Now.
Yes. The best NA cocktail bars use the same techniques as their alcoholic side — fresh juices, house syrups, bitters, infusions, NA spirits (Lyre's, Seedlip, Wilderton, Ritual) — to build drinks with comparable complexity. The difference is in execution: a good NA cocktail program treats the menu as a first-class offering, not a "we can make something" afterthought.
Common NA spirits at craft cocktail bars: Lyre's (full line of alternatives), Seedlip (Garden 108, Spice 94, Grove 42), Ritual Zero Proof (gin, whiskey, tequila), Wilderton (botanical), Ghia (aperitif), and Monday Zero Alcohol Gin. Many bars also use house-made shrubs, verjus, and tonics as cocktail components.
San Francisco's non-alcoholic scene is one of the country's deepest, anchored by two dedicated alcohol-free spots: Ocean Beach Cafe (billed as the city's first AF bar and bottle shop) in the Outer Richmond, and The New Bar, a fully zero-proof bottle shop and tasting bar in Cow Hollow. The real strength, though, is how seriously SF's world-class bars and restaurants take spirit-free: Michelin tasting menus build dedicated non-alcoholic pairings (Kiln, Anomaly, Nari), craft cocktail bars print real zero-proof lists (Bar Iris, Last Rites, ABV, Pacific Cocktail Haven, Trick Dog, True Laurel), Fort Point's Valencia beer hall pours its own NA beer, and spots like Copra, Palm House, Wildseed, and Fiorella round out a city where not drinking never means settling for a soda. We list cocktail-style bars (and adjacent lounges and wine bars) with a verified NA program rated 3 or higher. We don't list bars without a documented NA offering, even if they're great cocktail bars otherwise.
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